Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-04
THE COMING SESSION.

The Legislature to Meet on Wednesday Organization and Procedure = Caucuses To-day.
 The General Assembly will meet on We'd nesday at ten o'clock a. m. at the Capitol. The party caucuses will be held today, Tues day. Each body is Republican. The Senate caucus will choose president pro tenn, a chaplain and clerk, and messengers and door keepers and make up the committees. The House caucus will choose Speaker (who makes up the committees) and also the chap lain, clerk, assistant clerk and doorkeepers and messengers.
 The assembling this year will be of special interest since there was no election of State officers by the people. When the Senate comes together the Secretary of State will call it to order and administer the oath to the members. Temporary tellers are ap- pointed and clerk is elected by ballot. Then the clerk, after taking the oath, calls for a ballot for president pro tenn. The clerk de- clares the result and the president takes the chair and takes the oath. The Senate then elects by resolution it's chaplain, two messen- gers and three doorkeepers and a committee on the canvass of votes for Senators. GA member of the House must be on this com mittee, for if there is tie between two can didates for the State Senate the House must elect.) The Senate then informs the House that it is ready for business.
 The Speaker of the former House or the senior member of any previous House calls the House to order. The chief clerk of the Secretary of State calls the roll and ad- ministers the oath A ballot is taken for Speaker. Then after the Speaker elected has taken the oath he calls for ballot for clerk Resolutions pass eleeting assistant clerk, chap mes Gi iY keepers.
 The committee on the canvass of votes for State officers must report before the adjourn ment of the session, though 8 recess may be taken previously. If as is the case this year the canvass shows no election joint reso- lution is passed in each house fixing an hour for joint convention the next day to elect. The president pro tenn. of the Senate presides over this meeting. The clerk of each body calls it's roll, though the clerk of the Senate is the clerk of the convention.
 Each State officer is separately elected by ballot. Then the convention is dissolved. Each house reassembles by itself and hears a report of the proceedings. Committees wait upon the elected officers and inauguration takes place before a new joint convention which hears the Governors message.
 The next formal proceeding is the election of United States Senator. Each house must vote viva voce for candidate for Senator on  uary 18th. On the next day at noon they meet in joint convention. If each house has given majority for the same person he is declared Senator by resolution. If that has not been done, the joint convention must proceed to viva voce vote by roll call and must vote so at least once each day until an election is efected.-Hartford Courant. Where Governor English Met an Old
 Friend.
 A few days ago J. H. Hobson gave din ner at the Lion dor, which was very inter esting on account of meeting which oc- cured there. Ex-Governor English, of Con- necticut, and Minister McLane were the ones who met Both were born seventy five years ago. They had been great friends, but had not seen each other since the nomination of James K. Polk, forty odd years ago. It struck them both as highly amusing to meet in that way, one a minister to France and the other brand new bridegroom on his honeymoon, and they told the com pany they would never have be- lieved him if the most plausible of angels had come down forty years ago to prophecy that meeting.-Sun's Cable Letter.
 SWORN IN.